John McWhorter – Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely

0:00 John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” 9:44 How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields 19:27 Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … 27:28 … but the New York subway is getting scary 37:45 Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” 50:50 A possible left-wing objection to reparations 57:22 Glenn goes ham on reparations Recorded May 18, 2023 Links and Readings Steven Pinker’s book, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language John’s book, Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca John’s book, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of “Pure” Standard English John’s language podcast, Lexicon Valley John, Our Magnificent B*****d Tongue: The Untold History of English John’s NYT piece about Jordan Neely, “A Killing on the F Train” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations” Matthew Desmond’s book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein August Wilson’s play, Two Trains Running

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